ah yes, a video about the objective, subjective and absolute best class in every final fantasy game to exist. No, I'm not biased. btw your glam is on point once again
I’m a dark knight lover too! Ever since Cecil from FF4. I wish we got more of them in the FF games. Have you checked out Stranger of Paradise yet? You can make Dark Knight super strong in that game with the right gear.
@@morriganrenfield8240 yea it’s confusing at first since the game doesn’t tell you what to do for it, but basically you’re supposed to activate the blood weapon ability so you heal yourself when you attack the enemies. It’s an ability under the marauder tree. So it takes a little extra effort since you have to remember to keep that ability active, but the extra damage is great.
I just finished the 70 job quest for DRK and it felt so right unlocking TBN. Gaining a new, powerful ability with narrative weight and justification gives those good good RPG vibes.
They should change Living Shadow so that it appears instantly, via plunge cut, when called in-combat, and leave the summon animation for when you're not in combat mode, starting the countdown when you pull. That way you'd get the best of both worlds: the cool animation and the instantaneous effect. And yes, Frey's actions should reflect your own attacks in some way. Right now, Living Shadow is basically a DoT skill that takes 7 seconds to activate.
Since I always loved playing Greatswords in games like Monster Hunter and Dark Souls I picked up DRK when I came to Ishgard and it never let me go again. The job quests are one of my favorite story, DRK itself is fast and fun to play and it finally managed to bring the fun of tanking to me.
I love all tanks equally, I once started as MRD and then picked up DRK as my third tank to play after Gunbreaker, I heavily enjoyed it in shadowbringers. I did see major flaws with Dark Knight during 6.0 and I'm glad they did some changes and started playing Dark Knight a little bit more in raids and dungeons. The job can still be a bit sketchy in dungeons but no means learning when to mitigate properly without the sustain that Paladin and Warrior gets can be quite fun. Good job on the video!
Really, the easiest way to improve TBN is to have a lower level ability that works similarly. With TBN just being an upgrade. My opinion would be to just make it only a shield. TBN upgrades the shield to be able to use the offensive oGCDs for free. That way new DRKs can focus on using the shield when needed and TBN adds in the level of wanting to make sure it pops.
I'm REALLY happy with the Dark Knight changes they made in 6.1, but I do still think that TBN needs a bit more love. What's crazy to me is that Arcane Crest is essentially what I wanted TBN to become but they gave it to Reaper instead (which I'm not complaining about as I main Reaper now but dayum). My recommendation for the skill is to raise the cooldown to 25 seconds like all the other tank cooldowns, remove the MP cost, and make it so that when the shield is fully broken you get the mitigation from that new ability that they added which could then be removed. This serves the dual purpose of cutting down on button bloat as well as still giving Dark Knights a reason to hope that their shield is fully absorbed. Past that, I would make it so that blood weapon not only restores MP and HP as well to give Dark Knights just a tad bit more self-sustain.
DRK just carried me through 3.0 and I'm already in love with it more than PAL or GNB. That said, I would be totally down for some minor skill shuffling to get TBN at Lv. 60 maybe? Maybe shove Carve And Spit down to Lv. 58, too?
Oblation is my only real complaint as a Dark Knight main. Devs should just make it a higher feature added to TBN or add something to make it make it stand out more as an ability. Maybe they can add like a minor regen HP over time with its ability when TBN's shield successfully breaks while ability is in effect. That would kill 2 birds with one stone.
What's the glam setup you have going on at the start of the third reason? I wanna add it to my collection of glam setups for next tier so I can look cool while I slap the boss with my giant sword.
I have DRK at 35 and really want to play it, but I don't really like being an important part of the team. I've pretty much exclusively played DPS, where I just have to press buttons in order and dodge the odd mechanic. The most I've needed to do as a DPS is rez a healer as SMN one time. I also have SCH at 82 since SMN is my main, but I don't use that either for similar reasons.
The lower level parties and even bosses are fairly chill for when you level it up, so unless you sprint around spamming your aoe on every corner of the dungeon, it's actually pretty hard to die or get others killed. By the time you face an actual challenge, you already know what you're doing.
Hey, this was a really good job overview. Are you planning on doing one for Scholar? Also I want a giant pizza cutter weapon for Dark Knights, because it's all edge.
The shadow is no copy of you it is the fraction of frey who lives in the job crystal Bcs you summond frey that one time in the job quest to rescue the child if you remember
as a former drk main i still feel the job needs more work i mean tbn is okay but everything else is better *cough * bloodwetting *cough* or if you don't wanna go down that route combined dark mind with its oid partner in crime darkdance and have them become one ability on the topic of the shadow i'd rather have dark arts or have the shadows dmg percentage added to delirum instead as this for me would be a smoother game play experience. otherwise i appreciate the love for my former main
IMO DRK needs a full rework. Compared to the other tanks, DRK is mind-numblingly boring and also barely less sqiushy than GNB. Haven't played DRK in a while simply because I refuse to.
@@riusaki Gunbreaker is insanely tanky, Gunbreaker being squishy?? Dark knights tanking abilities while vible because dark brings around the same dps as a GNB (looking like less with the recent changes). The tank would only be used by people who find the job cool. Rework the job, i don't think dark knight should be about raw tanking but it should have a lot of sustain and drain mechs, the rotation shouldn't be "busy warrior".
@@Elrossss considering dark Knight was rework to be more like warrior its busy warrior, giving a tank job lots of ocgds doesn't really make it that much more fun. I'd argue the defensives that warrior does have makes the job feel a lot more fun.
@@sul2784 so because drk playstyle was "later" makes it so that it is "copied" from warrior? That's a pretty meaningless comparison, I could just very say they made drk what warrior always should have been. If you can't see how subjective me calling warrior the boring drk is just the same as you calling drk the busy warrior is I don't really know what else to say about this. As for bloodwhetting/raw intuition I don't really see how making healers useless at a press of a button in dungeons is good design.
It was my main until a month ago. I really liked it so much. But I decided to walk the way of the Samurai and now that's my main. Dark Knight for the most part I feel like it's kinda complete by lv70 now and the content I use him most.
Hi Desperius. Can you tell me what addon or mod you used to get the red and orange MP bar displayed at 1:09 ? I think it looks sick, but have no idea how to get it like you have it. Simple Tweaks doesn't seem to offer that level of color customization.
@@DesperiusFFXIV Ah, thanks anyways. Simple Tweaks does a decent job, but it fades to white instead of fading to orange, which is a little less cool. When I first saw that MP bar in your video, I thought maybe DRK's MP bar changed color during Dark Side or something and was a little disappointed to find that not to be the case haha.
The sustain is the only issue I have with them. I know they have TBN but a regen would be nice. They glam better than any other tank, I just wish they weren't as squishy. I do understand though that DRK has always been about damage and HP sacrifice, but I can still dream.
I am in the process of leveling all the tanks (working on DRK currently). I would say when doing dungeons DRK.does need some planning on pulls vs WAR or PLD heck even GNB) is the fact as a DRK you don't have any good self healing abilities. As a WAR I literally don't die in dungeons. I could pick myself up from 10%hp to 'full without the healer help. Not so much wtih DRK.
I always really appreciate your videos because you convey all the passion you have for this game. I only started playing for 7 days and I had two goals: to learn how to tank (and in fact I have a warrior) and to try the dark knight. I grew up reading Kentaro Miura's Berserk and when I learned that the Dark Knight had paid homage to it, I was thrilled. Just a question what is this Hairstyle called 03:52 and where can I get it?
Note. Living Dead is a Benediction effect during Walking Dead in trash pulls. Communicate (or hope) with your healer so they understand that this is effect is ONLY in Walking Dead… not before or after it.
by far the best looking gear in game thats all you ever have to know about drk :D I could never get into healers or magic dps classes because 98% of their armor look so bad in comparison to tanks or melee
I'm sorry in advance, but I'd like to share some thoughts on the current iteration of Dark Knight too - I guess I'm emotionally damaged as Dark Knight player and as Tank player in general :'D So, I started playing FFXIV before Shadowbringers was around. First and foremost my goal in the game was to become a Dark Knight - and I totally agree that having to play up to Heavensward in order to be able to play Dark Knight and then needing to level again to keep going is really tormenting :'D But I loved playing as a Dark Knight since then... up until Shadowbringers at least. While it has become way easier since then, I still miss the sheer amount of flexibility it had by then. This flexibility is basically down to the management of two resources which give you more control over when to use certain skills - but only to some extend as you should keep some MP for TBN and some blood gauge for Living Shadow. I think therefore Warrior and Paladin offer even more flexibility in total. Living Shadow is a topic of its own... I can live with the style of that, but the shadow being not controlable in any way is still bugging me a bit. I would have liked a mechanic like the Ninja's shadow clone (flat Potency increase for X attacks in the time window) more in that regard. In terms of fast pacing I also kinda miss the old effect of Blood Weapon: not only generating blood gauge and MP but also reducing your global cooldown quite significantly. Now, for me personally the Gunbreaker fits the role of the fast pacing tank a bit better, having a (smaller) burst window more frequently than the Dark Knight. The busy opener of the Dark Knight on the other hand leads to quite some downtime where you can not do all that much outside your 1-2-3 combo, once you depleted all your MP and oGCDs. But TBN is still what bugs me the most. On paper this skill is, once you get it on Level 70, ridiculously powerfull compared to what the other tanks have to offer at that point. And it still is in Shadowbringer. In Endwalker though, it is not that great anymore in comparison. Up to that point I would argue that TBN is an defensive option, that does offer some additional flexibility. But from that moment on, I feel more like TBN is a necessity and when I look at it that way, yeah I think the MP cost is not an investment anymore but a decrement that can lead to some goofy moments. I threw my TBN on a Paladin or Gunbreaker more than one occasion on which they used their invuln. I mean, it's not that much of a loss to really be mad about - but having a skill that doesn't really offer more than the competition does but also has a risk or downside to it feels rather unrewarding/punishing to me at least. That all being said, the Dark Knight is doing really fine on raids and trials. In addition to the reasons Desperius has given us in this video, I'd like to give another reason to play Dark Knight: The Job interface of the Dark Knight is simply the best tank interface there currently is and I am not even kidding with that point. It does not only look very cool in my opinion, but in addition to your job gauge you also have an indicator for the remaining time of dark side, the remaining time of living shadow and if you have a stack of dark arts. A Paladin in comparison can only keep track of his time windows and stacks on the buff/debuff panel which can be confusing sometimes, like when you do have several party buffs active for example.
For TBN, and "tank vibes" I think is very subjective. I dont really care too much as long as I pass the buster check. Just want to focus on other things and move along, so I dont think TBN is a plus when compared to the others.
I'm not sure I understand the level fallback negative point... you still need to level up a good chunk to get to the appropriate level to do story quests with all the new classes in StB, ShB and EW. So why is that a negative specifically with HW jobs?
So you can pick up the other jobs as you level, since they aren’t region locked. Hit level 50? You can become a Samurai or Red Mage if you own Stormblood. Hit 70? You can become a Sage or Reaper. However Astrologian and Dark Knight are specifically region locked in an area you have to hit level 50 to reach, period. You need to be in Heavensward, then you can get them. So it’s a unique problem to those jobs. It’s especially bad because level 30 is a very low level to have to start from, all things considered. Below level 50, skills don’t come around as fast as after, and dungeons were typically less liked. So death by a thousand cuts too.
@@DesperiusFFXIV you do fall back, you just fall back 10 levels instead of 20 (and I think it's quicker to get from 30 to 50 than from 50 to 60 for example).
Nice, I need to try it some more as DRK. I like GNB the best because every slice they make feels very poppy/explosive/impactful, whereas I remember the DRK swings feeling a bit slow and smushy when I tried. And PLD while awesome armor, feels absolutely terribly weak/jingly sounding attacks and spells, vs the explosive feel of GNB. But of course all are cool in their own way, haven't tried WAR yet but want to
DRK 4 life tho xD But I really wish that TBN would cost only 2000 or 1500 mp bc than I would press it more often for autohits (for example) and experiment more with it to get more rewarding dmg out of it. But let's see what the future will bring us : )
I wish DRK had 2 traits as it leveled, magic mastery and magic mastery 2, each reducing MP cost of abilities by 500 so you go from 3 uneven casts to 4 even casts, then 5. Give that and TBN at level 30, along with separating Abyssal Drain from Carve and Spit and giving it by level 50 with an MP cost, and DRK would be amazing.
DRK was my favourite since HW, but over the years they've stripped it down and removed it's best self heal for dungeons. Aesthetically still my favourite but WAR is just so much better now. In Duty Finder content, WAR is the best of the 4 by miles. In DF you never know what you are getting so having the self healing of WAR is hugely important, maybe even more so than mitigation. Then Shake it Off and Nascent Flash is there to assist the party when Healers are struggling or down. I know PLD also has good heals but from memory their heals aren't linked to their DMG in the way WAR heals through dealing DMG DRK feels horrible once the healers die or are struggling, and you feel helpless about your HP dropping. Then GNB feels similar to DRK, you just feel helpless once the healers start to struggle or due
To clarify on this. PLD has self-healing ontop of it's Magic Damage phase. It's not as 1 to 100 as WAR is, but it'll keep you healthy. Big agree on everything else tho. Even tho GNB has slightly more healing options than DRK (2 stacks of Aurora, and Heart of Corundum 900 potency heal), they still feel kinda squish if the healer isn't playing. Been playing alot of DRK lately tho and the healing during Walking Dead *is* helping somewhat but I can still feel my healers having heart problems beyond the veil of the internet because of how fast my HP drops in comparison to the other tanks. xD
I love all the tanks, and as much as I love the drk, I feel the animations and sounds to be the weakest. Gnb cartridge rounds feels explosive when I use them, warrior inner release feels and sounds like I’m a berserker, but drk just feel like a limp noodle. Paladin… well it’s in the middle. This is all my opinion though.
I don't mind the Meta Pick on 2nd Reason, what I'm afraid is, will it increasing Toxicity toward DRK ? Since Meta Player lean toward this class they will expect that other DRK should be up on par to them or something If normal DRK that pick the class just for their love underperform in any shape or form, they'll have a stigma to the class it's the same as Lifeline, Wraith or something like that on APEX, I thinks you get the point Great Vid tho, DRK all the way and will not change my main anytime soon, unless I got a group of friend and I can swap to some DPS like MNK xD
Eh Noone in normal/ex content is gonna care about your performance and in savage if you've got like 86-88k hp with food(looking at hp is an easy way to tell ilvl) they aren't gonna compare you to a bis drk that has over 90k. Ultimates are different tho. You are expected to be up to par.
TBN is perfect as is and doesn't need a change. A bit more self heal when it comes to mob pulls would be nice, but other than that I think the jobs in basically a perfect spot for me! Well, maybe make dark mind not magic only, a personal cooldown for raid wides is weird lol.
As a Paladin main who switched to Darknight because my Paladin is 90 and I'm about to enter to the shadowbringer content this video hit home. PS: my turn off in regards to DRK is PvP. Does someone else have any good feedback in regards on how this job is performing PvP wise? Thanks people.
Ngl in PVP id say dark knight and paladin are on the same tier . While paladin lets you soak up so much more damage amd you can play the support tank role, the dark knights strength is it's massive damage from the lb to your aoes. You just need to understand the limits and risks that you need to mind as your abilities uses hp as its main source. What a pld can do is very different to what a drk can do
For me my playstyle as a pld is to act as a sponge and stun priority targets, as a drk you are meant to be thr cc to stun everyone and help the dps by dropping their health a lot
I love and hate this Job, half the healers struggle to keep it alive, and sadly people hate it when you play it too. That being said, if you are looking to get into Tanking, go with PLD or Gunbreaker for starters and then get into this. For Healing WHM is meta anything else is just heresy. (Joke) Seriously though, dont start as a DRK, it will sour the Tanking experience as a tank Sprout.
I just... can't get over how simple it feels to play and how lackluster in game feel it is. Nothing it does has good "oomph" to it and the only use for its MP are 3 buttons and 2 of them are the same thing, just an AOE and single target variant. It simply just doesn't feel rewarding to play both mechanically and visually...
I agree. I ended up switching to PLD for my main tank because i just got bored of DRK, you do your 3 hit combo and sprinkle in a few OGCDs here and there ad nauseum. I find building up to the Confetior combo way more satisfying, plus the self sufficiency on PLD is a huge bonus for me as well. A lot of times i'll be in a dungeon or raid and my party is dead except me but i've been able to keep the fight going for a bit longer and, 9 times out of 10, actually finish off the boss preventing a wipe
Hard disagree on the living shadow mimicking you. It's just a dot either way and at least if it does it's own thing it feels like a separate entity and its independence fits the lore better. Any time we have seen these shades and shadows in the job quests they were very independent entities
I wish I could love the class if I would get TBN at lvl 60 or something ... I'm still leveling this class and I still don't understand what TBN is or what it does because I don't have it- With the limited amount of defenses I have early I feel like I need a lot of babysitting from the healer :/
TBN puts a shield on you (or any party member) for 25% of your health for 7 seconds. If you take enough damage to remove the shield you get Dark Arts which makes your next Edge or Flood cost no mana. It costs the same as Edge/Flood so if you apply it and it pops it's dps neutral.
That comparisson between Shake it Off and Dark Missionary is quite innacurate. Shake it off can grant you up to 21% of your Total HP as a shield, which is more than 10% of most Raid Wide AOE, also Shake it Off grants you mitigation against Physical and Magical damage. Dark Missionary is only better when there are more than one instace of Raid Wide AOE. Shake it Off is far more flexible. Also saying other tanks have slightly better defensive skills is also innacurate. Endgame dungeons is so hard to heal DRK. But I do have to agree, the job is fast paced, it's fluid and things does die faster.
ah yes, a video about the objective, subjective and absolute best class in every final fantasy game to exist. No, I'm not biased. btw your glam is on point once again
I’m a dark knight lover too! Ever since Cecil from FF4. I wish we got more of them in the FF games.
Have you checked out Stranger of Paradise yet? You can make Dark Knight super strong in that game with the right gear.
@@Titan.smashh i couldn’t figure out dark knight in SOP unfortunately. Constantly losing health while attacking is just such a hard thing to overcome
@@morriganrenfield8240 yea it’s confusing at first since the game doesn’t tell you what to do for it, but basically you’re supposed to activate the blood weapon ability so you heal yourself when you attack the enemies. It’s an ability under the marauder tree.
So it takes a little extra effort since you have to remember to keep that ability active, but the extra damage is great.
I just finished the 70 job quest for DRK and it felt so right unlocking TBN. Gaining a new, powerful ability with narrative weight and justification gives those good good RPG vibes.
As a DRK main this warms my cold edgy hart :')
I am glad to hear that
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What are those boots are on your dark knight?
@@kaycarr08what is this while Set? Can you please Tell me? The glowing chest, the cool helmet and maybe the Rest If you know please
That was a BADASS INTRO. Holy hell!! Didn’t expect to open the vid and go straight into head banging. AWESOME!!
Thank you ❤️
Despi talking about DRK with the mandatory DMC music on the back
Yep perfection incarnated
Was missing this
They should change Living Shadow so that it appears instantly, via plunge cut, when called in-combat, and leave the summon animation for when you're not in combat mode, starting the countdown when you pull. That way you'd get the best of both worlds: the cool animation and the instantaneous effect.
And yes, Frey's actions should reflect your own attacks in some way. Right now, Living Shadow is basically a DoT skill that takes 7 seconds to activate.
Since I always loved playing Greatswords in games like Monster Hunter and Dark Souls I picked up DRK when I came to Ishgard and it never let me go again.
The job quests are one of my favorite story, DRK itself is fast and fun to play and it finally managed to bring the fun of tanking to me.
same
I love all tanks equally, I once started as MRD and then picked up DRK as my third tank to play after Gunbreaker, I heavily enjoyed it in shadowbringers. I did see major flaws with Dark Knight during 6.0 and I'm glad they did some changes and started playing Dark Knight a little bit more in raids and dungeons. The job can still be a bit sketchy in dungeons but no means learning when to mitigate properly without the sustain that Paladin and Warrior gets can be quite fun.
Good job on the video!
At this point, I would love each of us to come together and just gush about DRK. I love the job so much.
You remind me why I listen to bury the light everytime I play DRK
Damm!!!
THAT INTRO GOES HARRRRD
Just started drk and loving it!!!! My first tank ever... how did i go so long without trying it! Awesome
What a wonderful video, I love DRK! he's my main after DRG
Thank YOU for watching 😊
That "Together!" made me think of all the times me and another DRK used TBN on each other
I literally just started playing Dark Knight like an hour before this video lmao
Really, the easiest way to improve TBN is to have a lower level ability that works similarly. With TBN just being an upgrade.
My opinion would be to just make it only a shield. TBN upgrades the shield to be able to use the offensive oGCDs for free. That way new DRKs can focus on using the shield when needed and TBN adds in the level of wanting to make sure it pops.
xeno cameos fucking killed me great job
I'm REALLY happy with the Dark Knight changes they made in 6.1, but I do still think that TBN needs a bit more love. What's crazy to me is that Arcane Crest is essentially what I wanted TBN to become but they gave it to Reaper instead (which I'm not complaining about as I main Reaper now but dayum). My recommendation for the skill is to raise the cooldown to 25 seconds like all the other tank cooldowns, remove the MP cost, and make it so that when the shield is fully broken you get the mitigation from that new ability that they added which could then be removed. This serves the dual purpose of cutting down on button bloat as well as still giving Dark Knights a reason to hope that their shield is fully absorbed. Past that, I would make it so that blood weapon not only restores MP and HP as well to give Dark Knights just a tad bit more self-sustain.
Agree why the fk Dark Mind and Missionary are still magic damage ffs....
I'm a DRK main for better or for worse. Ride or die, DRK will always be the Job that keeps me playing FFXIV.
Omg...Yoshi sipping on wine watching Xeno. That made the video for me😂
6.1 is released
DRK mains: My time has come!
The power of Edgeines is strong in this one ^^
DRK just carried me through 3.0 and I'm already in love with it more than PAL or GNB. That said, I would be totally down for some minor skill shuffling to get TBN at Lv. 60 maybe? Maybe shove Carve And Spit down to Lv. 58, too?
I can smell the Xeno’s reaction coming
Great video to watch before work
Oblation is my only real complaint as a Dark Knight main. Devs should just make it a higher feature added to TBN or add something to make it make it stand out more as an ability. Maybe they can add like a minor regen HP over time with its ability when TBN's shield successfully breaks while ability is in effect. That would kill 2 birds with one stone.
add additional sustain skill for drk?
devs hate that foremost 😂
What's the glam setup you have going on at the start of the third reason? I wanna add it to my collection of glam setups for next tier so I can look cool while I slap the boss with my giant sword.
I have DRK at 35 and really want to play it, but I don't really like being an important part of the team. I've pretty much exclusively played DPS, where I just have to press buttons in order and dodge the odd mechanic. The most I've needed to do as a DPS is rez a healer as SMN one time. I also have SCH at 82 since SMN is my main, but I don't use that either for similar reasons.
The lower level parties and even bosses are fairly chill for when you level it up, so unless you sprint around spamming your aoe on every corner of the dungeon, it's actually pretty hard to die or get others killed. By the time you face an actual challenge, you already know what you're doing.
Sounds like someone that doesn't want to have responsibilities...
Yoo this is definitively the first intro I’ve ever re watched for anything, someone please give me the song name
Bury the Light from DMC 5
@@someoneelse7287 thank you for this blessing
@@Eggjakey I gotchu fam. Enjoy
What's the name of that helmet? Looks so cool
Hey, this was a really good job overview. Are you planning on doing one for Scholar?
Also I want a giant pizza cutter weapon for Dark Knights, because it's all edge.
Alright I need to know what the glamour is at 4:42. Anyone?
Living Shadow should be a copy of your character.
It's weird being a Lala with a full size shadow
The shadow is no copy of you it is the fraction of frey who lives in the job crystal
Bcs you summond frey that one time in the job quest to rescue the child if you remember
I was meant to be the Warrior of Darkness...
... so long PLD
as a former drk main i still feel the job needs more work i mean tbn is okay but everything else is better *cough * bloodwetting *cough* or if you don't wanna go down that route combined dark mind with its oid partner in crime darkdance and have them become one ability
on the topic of the shadow i'd rather have dark arts or have the shadows dmg percentage added to delirum instead as this for me would be a smoother game play experience.
otherwise i appreciate the love for my former main
IMO DRK needs a full rework. Compared to the other tanks, DRK is mind-numblingly boring and also barely less sqiushy than GNB. Haven't played DRK in a while simply because I refuse to.
@@riusaki Gunbreaker is insanely tanky, Gunbreaker being squishy?? Dark knights tanking abilities while vible because dark brings around the same dps as a GNB (looking like less with the recent changes). The tank would only be used by people who find the job cool.
Rework the job, i don't think dark knight should be about raw tanking but it should have a lot of sustain and drain mechs, the rotation shouldn't be "busy warrior".
@@sul2784 nah warrior is the boring dark knight
@@Elrossss considering dark Knight was rework to be more like warrior its busy warrior, giving a tank job lots of ocgds doesn't really make it that much more fun.
I'd argue the defensives that warrior does have makes the job feel a lot more fun.
@@sul2784 so because drk playstyle was "later" makes it so that it is "copied" from warrior? That's a pretty meaningless comparison, I could just very say they made drk what warrior always should have been. If you can't see how subjective me calling warrior the boring drk is just the same as you calling drk the busy warrior is I don't really know what else to say about this.
As for bloodwhetting/raw intuition I don't really see how making healers useless at a press of a button in dungeons is good design.
It was my main until a month ago. I really liked it so much. But I decided to walk the way of the Samurai and now that's my main. Dark Knight for the most part I feel like it's kinda complete by lv70 now and the content I use him most.
Hi Desperius. Can you tell me what addon or mod you used to get the red and orange MP bar displayed at 1:09 ? I think it looks sick, but have no idea how to get it like you have it. Simple Tweaks doesn't seem to offer that level of color customization.
That is just edited in post, maybe you can find something similar with "Material UI" or something similar
@@DesperiusFFXIV Ah, thanks anyways. Simple Tweaks does a decent job, but it fades to white instead of fading to orange, which is a little less cool. When I first saw that MP bar in your video, I thought maybe DRK's MP bar changed color during Dark Side or something and was a little disappointed to find that not to be the case haha.
The sustain is the only issue I have with them. I know they have TBN but a regen would be nice. They glam better than any other tank, I just wish they weren't as squishy. I do understand though that DRK has always been about damage and HP sacrifice, but I can still dream.
They kinda hit that mark with the pvp kit. I have no clue what it looked like before but i quite like what they did with drk with the pvp rework
@@skyfall103 I noticed that! I wish that could be integrated in pve.
I am in the process of leveling all the tanks (working on DRK currently). I would say when doing dungeons DRK.does need some planning on pulls vs WAR or PLD heck even GNB) is the fact as a DRK you don't have any good self healing abilities. As a WAR I literally don't die in dungeons. I could pick myself up from 10%hp to 'full without the healer help. Not so much wtih DRK.
Thanks for the new glamour idea 😛
yeah i can never decide between darknight and gunbreaker. i love both playstiles and the style
10:46 but when they do this they would cut the story with Frey out, so I don't think that will happen.. then again they got rid of Kaiten >
is that a DRG Helmet mod on a DRK?
Yooooo what's that helmet?
Whats the whole Set?
I love drk. But I'm a little bitter that tbn is damage neutral and not damage positive
0:23 where is this cutscene from? I don’t remember it
From the Heavensward Benchmark
Top tier intro
am Xbox and I’ve been playing the beta and I just now finally got there. Dark Knight is so fun.
I always really appreciate your videos because you convey all the passion you have for this game. I only started playing for 7 days and I had two goals: to learn how to tank (and in fact I have a warrior) and to try the dark knight. I grew up reading Kentaro Miura's Berserk and when I learned that the Dark Knight had paid homage to it, I was thrilled. Just a question what is this Hairstyle called 03:52 and where can I get it?
Note. Living Dead is a Benediction effect during Walking Dead in trash pulls. Communicate (or hope) with your healer so they understand that this is effect is ONLY in Walking Dead… not before or after it.
Odenta Kai, my choice of DRK glam weapon as well.
by far the best looking gear in game thats all you ever have to know about drk :D I could never get into healers or magic dps classes because 98% of their armor look so bad in comparison to tanks or melee
hey very late to this but what is the chest piece you have on at 0:41
What were those gloves you had on your character?
What armor set is that at the beginning 0:32
my 1st tank ever and my main job ever since...
the TBN is an addictive stuf
the edginess just a bonus that make us a Cool Junky 😎
What armour set is that? That Dark Knight set with the red gem in the middle and how do I get it?
what's the name of the helm u r using i thought it's dragoon only
May i ask what is the sword at 0:34?
What dye did you use for your Cronus Lux at 4:44? :)
Jet Black, I guess 😅
@@DesperiusFFXIVhey can you please Tell me which Armor this is you were using at timestamp 3rd reason pleaseee 😭
I’ve wanted to lvl this class for so long.
I'm sorry in advance, but I'd like to share some thoughts on the current iteration of Dark Knight too - I guess I'm emotionally damaged as Dark Knight player and as Tank player in general :'D
So, I started playing FFXIV before Shadowbringers was around. First and foremost my goal in the game was to become a Dark Knight - and I totally agree that having to play up to Heavensward in order to be able to play Dark Knight and then needing to level again to keep going is really tormenting :'D
But I loved playing as a Dark Knight since then... up until Shadowbringers at least.
While it has become way easier since then, I still miss the sheer amount of flexibility it had by then. This flexibility is basically down to the management of two resources which give you more control over when to use certain skills - but only to some extend as you should keep some MP for TBN and some blood gauge for Living Shadow. I think therefore Warrior and Paladin offer even more flexibility in total.
Living Shadow is a topic of its own... I can live with the style of that, but the shadow being not controlable in any way is still bugging me a bit. I would have liked a mechanic like the Ninja's shadow clone (flat Potency increase for X attacks in the time window) more in that regard.
In terms of fast pacing I also kinda miss the old effect of Blood Weapon: not only generating blood gauge and MP but also reducing your global cooldown quite significantly. Now, for me personally the Gunbreaker fits the role of the fast pacing tank a bit better, having a (smaller) burst window more frequently than the Dark Knight. The busy opener of the Dark Knight on the other hand leads to quite some downtime where you can not do all that much outside your 1-2-3 combo, once you depleted all your MP and oGCDs.
But TBN is still what bugs me the most. On paper this skill is, once you get it on Level 70, ridiculously powerfull compared to what the other tanks have to offer at that point. And it still is in Shadowbringer. In Endwalker though, it is not that great anymore in comparison. Up to that point I would argue that TBN is an defensive option, that does offer some additional flexibility. But from that moment on, I feel more like TBN is a necessity and when I look at it that way, yeah I think the MP cost is not an investment anymore but a decrement that can lead to some goofy moments. I threw my TBN on a Paladin or Gunbreaker more than one occasion on which they used their invuln. I mean, it's not that much of a loss to really be mad about - but having a skill that doesn't really offer more than the competition does but also has a risk or downside to it feels rather unrewarding/punishing to me at least.
That all being said, the Dark Knight is doing really fine on raids and trials.
In addition to the reasons Desperius has given us in this video, I'd like to give another reason to play Dark Knight:
The Job interface of the Dark Knight is simply the best tank interface there currently is and I am not even kidding with that point. It does not only look very cool in my opinion, but in addition to your job gauge you also have an indicator for the remaining time of dark side, the remaining time of living shadow and if you have a stack of dark arts. A Paladin in comparison can only keep track of his time windows and stacks on the buff/debuff panel which can be confusing sometimes, like when you do have several party buffs active for example.
As a SMN main I feel you... We can be sad together...
For TBN, and "tank vibes" I think is very subjective. I dont really care too much as long as I pass the buster check. Just want to focus on other things and move along, so I dont think TBN is a plus when compared to the others.
Hey can you please Tell me the Name of this Armor Set you wearing?
im currently working on my anima weapon just so i commit to Dark Knight from my GNB main lol
The DRK Anima is just *Chefskiss
@@DesperiusFFXIV Cronus only or the earlier steps too ? :D
@@DesperiusFFXIV i just would weish that it always would glow because on the back without the effects it looks like a lvl 30 leveling weapon
@@rivenoak the earlier steps are good too, but Cronus Lux is arguably the best DRK weapon in the game
This class reminds me of Guts from Berserk👍Next class that I shall play is confirmed 🤟🤟
It was inspired by Berserk 🙂
Does anyone know what the glamour is for chest and helmet?
I'm not sure I understand the level fallback negative point... you still need to level up a good chunk to get to the appropriate level to do story quests with all the new classes in StB, ShB and EW. So why is that a negative specifically with HW jobs?
Because unlike the others you actually fall back 20 Levels, where the others are unlocked and started on the same level
So you can pick up the other jobs as you level, since they aren’t region locked. Hit level 50? You can become a Samurai or Red Mage if you own Stormblood. Hit 70? You can become a Sage or Reaper. However Astrologian and Dark Knight are specifically region locked in an area you have to hit level 50 to reach, period. You need to be in Heavensward, then you can get them. So it’s a unique problem to those jobs. It’s especially bad because level 30 is a very low level to have to start from, all things considered. Below level 50, skills don’t come around as fast as after, and dungeons were typically less liked. So death by a thousand cuts too.
@@DesperiusFFXIV you do fall back, you just fall back 10 levels instead of 20 (and I think it's quicker to get from 30 to 50 than from 50 to 60 for example).
TBN is best skill in game. Using it properly makes fight not only easier but is fun as hell as you see spike do no damage.
After latest changes i started playing my old DRK instead of new crappy SAM. Damn its soo good now
Devil may cry theme qt the end lol
Armor set?
Nice, I need to try it some more as DRK. I like GNB the best because every slice they make feels very poppy/explosive/impactful, whereas I remember the DRK swings feeling a bit slow and smushy when I tried. And PLD while awesome armor, feels absolutely terribly weak/jingly sounding attacks and spells, vs the explosive feel of GNB. But of course all are cool in their own way, haven't tried WAR yet but want to
Yoo what was that weaon in the intro
what is the helm glam?
DRK 4 life tho xD But I really wish that TBN would cost only 2000 or 1500 mp bc than I would press it more often for autohits (for example) and experiment more with it to get more rewarding dmg out of it. But let's see what the future will bring us : )
I wish DRK had 2 traits as it leveled, magic mastery and magic mastery 2, each reducing MP cost of abilities by 500 so you go from 3 uneven casts to 4 even casts, then 5. Give that and TBN at level 30, along with separating Abyssal Drain from Carve and Spit and giving it by level 50 with an MP cost, and DRK would be amazing.
DRK was my favourite since HW, but over the years they've stripped it down and removed it's best self heal for dungeons.
Aesthetically still my favourite but WAR is just so much better now.
In Duty Finder content, WAR is the best of the 4 by miles.
In DF you never know what you are getting so having the self healing of WAR is hugely important, maybe even more so than mitigation.
Then Shake it Off and Nascent Flash is there to assist the party when Healers are struggling or down.
I know PLD also has good heals but from memory their heals aren't linked to their DMG in the way WAR heals through dealing DMG
DRK feels horrible once the healers die or are struggling, and you feel helpless about your HP dropping.
Then GNB feels similar to DRK, you just feel helpless once the healers start to struggle or due
To clarify on this. PLD has self-healing ontop of it's Magic Damage phase. It's not as 1 to 100 as WAR is, but it'll keep you healthy.
Big agree on everything else tho. Even tho GNB has slightly more healing options than DRK (2 stacks of Aurora, and Heart of Corundum 900 potency heal), they still feel kinda squish if the healer isn't playing.
Been playing alot of DRK lately tho and the healing during Walking Dead *is* helping somewhat but I can still feel my healers having heart problems beyond the veil of the internet because of how fast my HP drops in comparison to the other tanks. xD
Omgosh bro got the dmc glams
I love all the tanks, and as much as I love the drk, I feel the animations and sounds to be the weakest. Gnb cartridge rounds feels explosive when I use them, warrior inner release feels and sounds like I’m a berserker, but drk just feel like a limp noodle. Paladin… well it’s in the middle. This is all my opinion though.
I don't mind the Meta Pick on 2nd Reason, what I'm afraid is, will it increasing Toxicity toward DRK ?
Since Meta Player lean toward this class they will expect that other DRK should be up on par to them or something
If normal DRK that pick the class just for their love underperform in any shape or form, they'll have a stigma to the class
it's the same as Lifeline, Wraith or something like that on APEX, I thinks you get the point
Great Vid tho, DRK all the way and will not change my main anytime soon, unless I got a group of friend and I can swap to some DPS like MNK xD
Eh Noone in normal/ex content is gonna care about your performance and in savage if you've got like 86-88k hp with food(looking at hp is an easy way to tell ilvl) they aren't gonna compare you to a bis drk that has over 90k. Ultimates are different tho. You are expected to be up to par.
TBN is perfect as is and doesn't need a change. A bit more self heal when it comes to mob pulls would be nice, but other than that I think the jobs in basically a perfect spot for me!
Well, maybe make dark mind not magic only, a personal cooldown for raid wides is weird lol.
I played DRK from Heavensward...in Endwalker, switched to WAR. WAR atm is still the best tank, even with the new DRK LD changes.
what is that animation in the intro and ending from?
Devil May Cry 5
@@DesperiusFFXIV i meant the Dark Knight fighting the white furred mob
Reaper is the red DRK
Dark Knight is the blue DRK
Edgy healer when?
Arguably AST.
Ascian Job Ascian Job Ascian Job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@NightshadeTSBc it wears black?? No...
I mained this job until endwalker.
Played reaper a bit but I imeadiatly started missing my tanky as fuck darkknight
Spinal music from Killer Instinct is a like.
As a Paladin main who switched to Darknight because my Paladin is 90 and I'm about to enter to the shadowbringer content this video hit home.
PS: my turn off in regards to DRK is PvP. Does someone else have any good feedback in regards on how this job is performing PvP wise? Thanks people.
Ngl in PVP id say dark knight and paladin are on the same tier . While paladin lets you soak up so much more damage amd you can play the support tank role, the dark knights strength is it's massive damage from the lb to your aoes. You just need to understand the limits and risks that you need to mind as your abilities uses hp as its main source. What a pld can do is very different to what a drk can do
For me my playstyle as a pld is to act as a sponge and stun priority targets, as a drk you are meant to be thr cc to stun everyone and help the dps by dropping their health a lot
I love and hate this Job, half the healers struggle to keep it alive, and sadly people hate it when you play it too. That being said, if you are looking to get into Tanking, go with PLD or Gunbreaker for starters and then get into this.
For Healing WHM is meta anything else is just heresy. (Joke)
Seriously though, dont start as a DRK, it will sour the Tanking experience as a tank Sprout.
location of the dark knight quest >.>
I can't go back to WAR, yes my healers would love that, but the rotation now feels so... slow compared to DRK. I even feel bored when playing WAR.
I just... can't get over how simple it feels to play and how lackluster in game feel it is. Nothing it does has good "oomph" to it and the only use for its MP are 3 buttons and 2 of them are the same thing, just an AOE and single target variant. It simply just doesn't feel rewarding to play both mechanically and visually...
I agree. I ended up switching to PLD for my main tank because i just got bored of DRK, you do your 3 hit combo and sprinkle in a few OGCDs here and there ad nauseum. I find building up to the Confetior combo way more satisfying, plus the self sufficiency on PLD is a huge bonus for me as well. A lot of times i'll be in a dungeon or raid and my party is dead except me but i've been able to keep the fight going for a bit longer and, 9 times out of 10, actually finish off the boss preventing a wipe
This video does us DRKs good. DRK forever
Hard disagree on the living shadow mimicking you. It's just a dot either way and at least if it does it's own thing it feels like a separate entity and its independence fits the lore better. Any time we have seen these shades and shadows in the job quests they were very independent entities
Wouldn't be a desperius video without invalidating his own opinion by mentioning fflogs at least once, lmao.
DARKNESS!!!
I feel like the Tanks have all been well balanced as of late
I wish I could love the class if I would get TBN at lvl 60 or something ... I'm still leveling this class and I still don't understand what TBN is or what it does because I don't have it- With the limited amount of defenses I have early I feel like I need a lot of babysitting from the healer :/
TBN puts a shield on you (or any party member) for 25% of your health for 7 seconds. If you take enough damage to remove the shield you get Dark Arts which makes your next Edge or Flood cost no mana. It costs the same as Edge/Flood so if you apply it and it pops it's dps neutral.
That comparisson between Shake it Off and Dark Missionary is quite innacurate. Shake it off can grant you up to 21% of your Total HP as a shield, which is more than 10% of most Raid Wide AOE, also Shake it Off grants you mitigation against Physical and Magical damage. Dark Missionary is only better when there are more than one instace of Raid Wide AOE. Shake it Off is far more flexible. Also saying other tanks have slightly better defensive skills is also innacurate. Endgame dungeons is so hard to heal DRK. But I do have to agree, the job is fast paced, it's fluid and things does die faster.
I get to Victory Pose like Cloud your argument is invalid... that said i wouldn't mind some more healing if even slightly.
I dunno, give tbn a regen? 👀